Crond no longer working on CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)

robertmaverick · 06-07-2016, 07:50 AM

Hi all,

Since a few days we have problems running our crontab, which is executing some PHP-scripts periodically.

The error we get is as follows:

Code:

Jun  7 14:48:01  crond[15942]: (php) ERROR (getpwnam() failed)
Jun  7 14:48:01  crond[15942]: (php) ERROR (getpwnam() failed)
Jun  7 14:48:01  crond[15942]: (php) ERROR (getpwnam() failed)
Jun  7 14:48:01  crond[15942]: (php) ERROR (getpwnam() failed)
Jun  7 14:48:01  crond[15942]: (php) ERROR (getpwnam() failed)

This is the content of crontab -l:

Code:

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root

# For details see man 4 crontabs

# Example of job definition:
# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# |  .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# |  |  .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# |  |  |  .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# |  |  |  |  .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# |  |  |  |  |
# *  *  *  *  * user-name  command to be executed
*/1 * * * * php /var/www/anyfix/includes/libs/dispatch/load_dispatch_data.php

Any help or suggestions is appreciated.

michaelk · 06-07-2016, 10:46 AM

cron is working but your php script is not. From the posted error the getpwnam function is failing.

If the script has been working what changes or updates were recently made that might cause it to fail? By running the script manually you should get a better indication of the error and where in the script it occurs. From there you will need to determine the cause. Sometimes easier said then done but without seeing the script we can only provide basic help.